Buy the First Cell Phone Ever: the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X

Hampshire, UK based website sells vintage cell phones, including the first ever commercial phone: the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. The phone originally cost $3995 in 1983. My buddy Howard had one of these back in the day installed into his car with a special pedestal for hands free talking and an antenna booster that mounted to the outside of the car.

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In Search Of The One True Layout...

Excellent article on how to use CSS to get the best layout for your website. Specifically, any order columns, equal height columns, or vertical grids. A CSS MUST READ...

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A perfectly free way to create and use an XP Virtual Machine

All free. All Legal. Using VMware's new VM Player.

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Digg has Venture Capital - a few million bucks

Digg just received $2.8 Million dollars from venture capitalists

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My Jack-o-LED

See this guy doing a Jack-O-Lantern illuminated by LEDs.

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First Ever USB Guitar Ships

Brian Moore has taken their excellent iGuitar line of digitally-equipped guitars, and added class-compliant USB, via the new iGuitar.USB model. Plug it into a USB jack, and you have instant access to your sound in recording and effects software, no drivers required.

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Microsoft Office 13 will be a Web Application!

No more installed apps on your machine. Everything is going to the web for Microsoft (from an official Microsoft source).

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The Best Science Photographs of 2005

So, what is a Vision of Science? To the judges of the Awards, a Vision of Science is an attention-grabbing image that gives new insight into the world of science and the workings of nature.

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The New Yorker reveals fake word in Dictionary

Even dictionaries employ DRM now. The New Yorker reveals the fake word placed in the New Oxford American Dictionary to monitor the illegal copiying of their word base.

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HOW TO: Ubuntu Linux for Novices

"Ubuntu, a popular distribution of the Linux operating system, has acquired a wildly growing user base. Described as being Linux for Human Beings, Ubuntu is somewhere in between Mandriva (formerly Mandrake) and Fedora Core in terms of ease of use. Ubuntu is a powerful operating system..."

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The car that makes its own fuel

A unique system that can produce Hydrogen inside a car using common metals such as Magnesium and Aluminum was developed by an Israeli company.

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Alarm clocks are bad. How to wake up and feel better.

Nature didn't intend for you to jump out of bed at the sound of a buzzer. This article gives a simple and free (as in beer) system to waking up more naturally that will have you feeling better.

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Cool Banner Maker For You Techies

A nifty little image generator that creates some pretty cool looking banners, I spent an hour messing with all the options :-p

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Video Game Consoles: 1972 to the Future

Here, you'll find information on nearly every video game console ever created and info on their accessories and games. A great buyer's guide, collector's guide or history lesson for anyone interested in gaming.

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Setting Firefox as your default brower for EVERYTHING

I have finally found out how to set firefox as my default browser for all applications. Don't you hate it when you click a link in a third-party program and it opens it in IE? Well this seemed to fix the problem: START > RUN then type: firefox.exe -silent -nosplash -setDefaultBrowser Yeah, no Internet Explorer!

Running an Automobile on Hydrogen Using Water

I found this amazing article today after a digg article got my interest peaked on what has been going on in the hydrogen power field. This article demonstrates how they where able to run a gas engine with no modification to the engine itself off of hydrogen gas produced by mixing water, salt and a metal compond.

190 Million Year Old Dinosaur Embryos Found In S. Africa

Finding dinosaur bones is one thing, but finding fossilized embryos is very rare. These are the oldest dinosaur embryos every discovered, says Dr. Robert Reisz, a professor at the University of Toronto.

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Picotux - The Smallest Linux Computer in The World

Say hello to the smallest Linux computer in the world. It's called the "Picotux 100", and it's only slightly larger (35mm�19mm�19mm) than an RJ45 connector.

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The $500 Gaming Machine

Tom's Hardware latest article about how to build a good gaming system below $500.

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Free replacements for Adobe and Macromedia programs...

Here is a nice compilation of applications that can almost replace most Adobe and Macromedia applications including Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, InDesign and many more. Most of these are geared for linux but most of them are on all platforms. Hope this helps.

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1,750 inch HD LED TV!!!!!

Yep, the dolphins are going to have the biggest HDTV in NFL football history, make that the biggest HDTV EVER!

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Hacking the Rubix Cube

This site shows you techniques on how to solve the Rubix Cube in under 30 seconds.

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Inspirational CSS Designs

Design Shack offers regular examples of great CSS, standards based design to help inspire and create. They feature any website which shows off some flair, and doesn't fit into the standard pattern we come to expect from CSS design.

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Record HiDef content from Comcast Receiver to WinXP

Great tutorial on how to record hidef content from the Motorola 62xx line of receivers distributed to Comcast subscribers. The utilities allow you to pull the content from the firewire port on the receiver and save locally on your PC. Also, this works on other boxes, SA3250HD & Samsung T165

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Google Office Live Webcast

Tuesday, October 4, 2005 10:30 a.m. PT/1:30 p.m. ET Computer History Museum Mountain View, CA Please join Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems Chairman and CEO and Dr. Eric Schmidt, Google Chairman of the Executive Committee and CEO as they discuss a new collaborative effort between the two companies.

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JPG Images of Einstein's Handwritten Manuscripts

"Digitized images of Einstein's manuscripts have been grouped here according to content into three sections: Scientific Writings, Non-Scientific Writings and Travel Diaries..." Look up your fav. theory and see it in his own handwriting.

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Run windows programs... Without using Windows!

The ReactOS® project is dedicated to making Free Software available to everyone by providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows® XP compatible operating system.

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LG Light Scribe DVD Burner (with pics)

Light scribe is a technology that allows you to burn an image on the other side of the disc. LG has announced its light scribe burner supporting every format including RAM and DL.

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